Can we stop destroying the solo part of this game?

[GreatLeviathan]

I don't mind the new patch. I'm learning to adjust but i've been playing muds/mmos since the mid-late nineties so i'm use to it. Its the elitism by some members that has me posting.

I know a mob my level should be an even match and a mob higher then me should kick my butt unless i'm geared. I'd even be playing more since the new patch if i didn't have a shitty isp that drops all the time.

My only gripe would be the cost of mp in healing and the little reward.

I don't care how anyone else plays, group, solo, or they want to try and hook up if they want too. I just don't want the game to be pidgeon holed into one game style. Many ways of gamestyle leads to more income and a better supported product. But there are some people that just want their way only. And there are some comments like "you're playing it wrong" that gives me the peeves. They are the people i am referring too. Instead of offering alternatives, they troll.

Overall i like the game and its direction, ifrit fight looks f'ing cool, and there are more ideas to add. But to stifle ideas cause some members don't like it, that is wrong. There are some things in this game that make me want to /facepalm but i'm not gonna fill up 5 threads with my opinion.

You don't like instanced raids but you like open world dungeons. Why not have both. You don't like to solo but you like to grp, have both. and the many other ways this game could add things.

Excactly.
Smartest post i have read so far on this thread including my defensive troll posts
Yeah thats my only thing i have atm MP costs for only healing you 200hp..
And when you have so many items from fighting you have to sell them 1 by 1... grrrr 10 mins on clicking sell

[options]

Thanks for the compliment. I should rephrase

My only gripe would be the cost of mp in healing and the little reward

incase someone sees reward and assumes i want leet gear at lvl 1

It should read high cost of mp for healing so little.

[Bled]

I don't mind the new patch. I'm learning to adjust but i've been playing muds/mmos since the mid-late nineties so i'm use to it. Its the elitism by some members that has me posting.

I know a mob my level should be an even match and a mob higher then me should kick my butt unless i'm geared. I'd even be playing more since the new patch if i didn't have a shitty isp that drops all the time.

My only gripe would be the cost of mp in healing and the little reward.

I don't care how anyone else plays, group, solo, or they want to try and hook up if they want too. I just don't want the game to be pidgeon holed into one game style. Many ways of gamestyle leads to more income and a better supported product. But there are some people that just want their way only. And there are some comments like "you're playing it wrong" that gives me the peeves. They are the people i am referring too. Instead of offering alternatives, they troll.

Overall i like the game and its direction, ifrit fight looks f'ing cool, and there are more ideas to add. But to stifle ideas cause some members don't like it, that is wrong. There are some things in this game that make me want to /facepalm but i'm not gonna fill up 5 threads with my opinion.

You don't like instanced raids but you like open world dungeons. Why not have both. You don't like to solo but you like to grp, have both. and the many other ways this game could add things.

Well i don't want to come off as an elitist, however you can not always include two play methods without disrupting the other. Yes in a perfect game solo content and party content balanced perfectly would work and be amazing but in reality its yet to be done and very difficult to even maintain. The common problem iv had with these games that cater to both solo and party is partying usually becomes the unsatisfactory means to do content due to the added frustrations of creating groups, coordinating groups, and so on. That is why the reward for partying needs to be much more profitable then solo otherwise more people tend to settle with solo thus making partying obsolete.

I love the patch and i feel that this patch has brought balance closer then the ZERG fest we used to have.

[options]

Well i don't want to come off as an elitist, however you can not always include two play methods without disrupting the other. Yes in a perfect game solo content and party content balanced perfectly would work and be amazing but in reality its yet to be done and very difficult to even maintain. The common problem iv had with these games that cater to both solo and party is partying usually becomes the unsatisfactory means to do content due to the added frustrations of creating groups, coordinating groups, and so on. That is why the reward for partying needs to be much more profitable then solo otherwise more people tend to settle with solo thus making partying obsolete.

I love the patch and i feel that this patch has brought balance closer then the ZERG fest we used to have.

Actually that does not sound elitist at all. At least you have an argument to add to your opinion. I may disagree but you didn't belittle someone for having a diff opinion.

Personally, SE can favour towards grp play but not at the expense of removing solo play altogether.

I don't think they are removing solo play (at least i hope not) altogether. I think with a few tweaks in 1.19a,b or even 1.20, the game will start balancing out. I'm assuming like all other patches they are just adding to areas that need to be added. Grp play needed to be fixed, next patch they may fix solo, or the patch after. Actually solo play just needs some tweaks (my opinion).

Edit
Well it needs content, but so does grp content for all lvl ranges

[Felis]

Sorry, I didn't read all
What is the problem with solo play? 1-50 solo is still posible.

[Isaaru]

Wanting to solo in a multiplayer game. Classic.

[options]

Sorry, I didn't read all
What is the problem with solo play? 1-50 solo is still posible.

More playtesting is required, but playing around today and the last few days i am beginning to think maybe its not the high mp cost of cures or how little you heal for. I never noticed it cause the game was so easy before but i'm beginning to think maybe its timers on spells and weapon skills.

I can understand having a barrier on skills that don't require tp or mp to restrict spamming them but why have timers on
skills or spells that already have a barrier, which is tp or mp. The limitation of either acquiring tp or micromanaging mp is already there, why have a second barrier. If i have built up 3000 tp, why not be able to throw the same skill 1 after the other, specially at low lvls since they only have a few skills to begin with. If i need to throw 5 cures at once, its gonna chew up the mp but it needs to be done. Why is there a 5 sec timer on cure?

I only noticed it today and as i said more playtesting is required, maybe i'm wrong and its needed. Thats my thought.

[Mushy]

I thought I wanted less solo, BUT IT TURNS OUT I WANT MORE!

[Cxplorer]

I'm glad that I am not the only one who wants to solo.

[Coglin]

Lol........
I am almost lvl 50 soloing without 7 others so yeah i know how to play the game.
Secondly i never said i want FFXIV to be solo orientated.
Again read.

Then why are you crying about soloing bring destroyed ?

Oh i know it is harder to solo. Thats why i solo.
Party is a lil too easy to do all the day.
I play in parties too sometimes to help others and so.

Then why are you crying about soloing bring destroyed ?

You can see some just don't really play the game huh..
It was a quest not grind but quest.
I was able to take on 2 lvl 49's before as solo.
I know all too well how to play FF games :-)
Played all of em complete at 100%.

Again, How is it broken then.

Your post on the first few pages are hilarious, blabbering about how you have your ls trying to ban players by mass reporting them. Not capable of doing that solo are ya? Interesting how your recruiting asistance to attempt to have post removed simply because they disagree with you. You bash anyone who even politely disagree with you. No need to be the average blow hard school bully. Solo blah blah blah, solo cry ry cry, solo whine whine whine, oh, wait, you disagree with me, now i will get my LS gang to party with me to mass report post I disagree with.

Now thats good stuff

You had to have 9 posters correct you because appearently do didn't even understand what the individual letters in M.M.O. stood for.